OPPRESS

Subjugate

• Be tyrannical

• Burden with cruelty

• Come down on

• Crush

• Crush the spirit

• Hold down

• Keep down

• Lie heavily upon

• Make downtrodden

• Persecute

• Put under the yoke

• Rule despotically

• Treat badly

• Treat harshly

• Tyrannize

• Walk all over

• Weigh heavily on

• Weigh upon heavily